ACCEL is a program of Green Path Credit Counseling Service. It is a part of the National Foundation of Credit Counseling and is a strategic partner of CUNA. It was developed at the request of credit unions, with credit union input, to provide both reactive help and proactive education to members. ACCEL provides three components of service: one-on-one, on-the-spot phone counseling with members; resources and educational tools (mostly provided online); and additional support services. Credit unions can place a link to the ACCEL Web site on their Web site. (www.Accelservices.org) There, members will find a library of educational articles. Educational newsletter articles are also provided to credit unions at no charge. Credit unions also have access to videos featuring 3- to 5-minute sessions. Additionally, ACCEL provides Budget Smart software that can be co-branded and made available for members to download through a link on the credit union’s Web site. This is a simple budgeting software, designed to be more user-friendly than Quicken and Microsoft Money. (www.budgetsmart.org).
To get started, email info@accelservices.org.
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BALANCE Financial Fitness Program is a financial counseling and education program geared to high school students through adults. The program offers the online educational component and Balance Track, which is the counseling component of the service. Members can call the toll-free information line for immediate help with questions about money management and personal finance. Money Management Counseling is also available by appointment. Members can download a Money Management Planner file. Counselors are qualified to cover: money management, credit and housing topics including goal setting, spending and savings plans, credit and credit reports, debt management, buying a first home, mortgage delinquency and foreclosure prevention.
Each session is goal oriented and results in a written action plan clearly outlining steps to take in order to establish personal financial control. Additionally, Balance Financial Fitness Program offers workshop curriculum available for purchase. Credit unions can purchase the curriculum/ licensing or purchase the package that includes having a Balance presenter lead the workshop. Balance Financial Fitness Program provides a wide variety of credit union support services. For more information, visit http://www.balancepro.org/. To get started, call (800) 808-4327 or email partnerrelations@balancepro.org.
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FOOLPROOF offers your credit union five separate financial literacy programs: separate programs for use by high schools and community groups, parents, college-age students, young adults, and working adults. FoolProof uses highly interactive online "modules" and dynamic websites to reach both members and non-members. The modules are:
- FoolProof for High Schools
- FoolProof for Parents
- FoolProof Solo
- Information Edge
- CUHQ
- Coming soon: FoolProof Workplace
It’s all turnkey, and starts at your credit union home page. Subscribe to at least one FoolProof financial literacy tool, and automatically receive FoolProof’s year-round consumer Web site for young people. FoolProof gives credit unions an enormous consumer presence with your members. Regardless of the size of your credit union, FoolProof gives you a powerful tool to better interact with your SEGS—and to interact with non-members at those SEGS. FoolProof provides straightforward, independent information that helps your members and your community make wise decisions. For more information, visit http://www.foolproofnational.com/gcua/. To get started, call Nick Buettner at (612) 234-1748, or email nick@foolproofhq.com.
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The NEFE HSFPP (National Endowment for Education, High School Financial Planning Program) was developed around a special type of education called performance-based learning. With performance-based learning, students take what they learn and apply it directly in the course of each unit. Carefully designed exercises and activities move the student step-by-step toward each of the seven core competencies that the program teaches. The program is turn key. Workbooks are provided; photocopying is not required. Material is suitable for high school students. Material is detailed and in-depth, and designed to be taught in a school setting. It is presented in a straightforward manner in a more classic text-book format. For more information and to get started, visit http://hsfpp.nefe.org/.
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